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NATION-WIDE PROTEST STRIKE BEGINS
LOCAL LEADERS CLAIM
8,000 TO PARTICIPATE
IN BUTTE AND VICINITY
Because of the fact that today is a holiday and the mines,
other industries and most of the businesses in the city are
closed down, no estimate of the number of men who have en
gaged in the Mooney sympathetic strike was possible today, ac
cording to union leaders, who stated the effect of the move
ment would not be felt until tomorrow.
At a well-attended meeting last night members of Metal Mine
Workers Industrial Union No. 800, voted unanimously to strike
themselves and to call for a general strike of all union miners
in Butte and viciinity for five days as a protest against the im
nrisonment of Mooney and all class war prisoners.
Various other unions of the city,
including the electricians and the
Metal Mine Workers of America No.
1, had previously voted to strike.
Local leaders estimated yesterday
that more than 8,000 workers would
participate in the Mooney strike in
Butte and vicinity..
PARADE IN SPOKANE.
(Special United Press Wire.)
Spokane, July 4.-With a hundred
special policemen sworn in, fully
armed and ready for any emergency,
Spokane authorities tensely waited
for the much advertised I. W. W.
parade, to be followed by a picnic
in one of the parks. Police Com
missioner Tilsey promised that no
arrests would be made if the parade
and picnic were orderly. Carrying of
red flags were forbidden and speak
ing at the park was also banned.
Thousands of lumberjacks poured
into the city during the last few
days, it being necessary in some cases
for the railroads to put on extra
coaches to handle t!-m. The wobbly
parade was scheduled to start at 11
o'clock, concurrently with the start
of the city's Fourth of July parade.
In the latter parade there was two
companies of state troops. The city
officials made an effort to get per
mission to use them in case of a riot,
but failed.
WASHINGTON-OREGON ARE OU'0
Seattle, July 4.-All membecrs of
the I. W. W. and thousands of other
workers walked off the jobs in log
ging and construction camps in west
ern Washington and Oregon yester
day afternoon, to take part in the
five-day strike for the release of
Mooney and class-war prisoners.
The camps arc completely tied up.
LOGGERS GO OUT.
Spokane, July 4.--More than 90
per cent of the loggers in the camps
of eastern Washington, Idaho and
western Montana came off the jobs
yesterday to take part in the protest
strike for the release of Mooney and
all class-war prisoners. These log
gers are all members of Lumber
Workers' Industrial Union No. 500,
I. W. W.
WORKERS PARADE.
(Special United Press Wire.)
Spokane, July 4.-The Fourth of
July and the I. W. W. parades here,
starting simultaneously, failed to re
sult in a clash. The city officials
(Continued on Page Six)
IContinued on 'age Six) house resolution by a vote of 2h to 3.
WILL ASK CONGRESS
FOR A PPROPRIA TION
(Special United Press Wire.)
Paris, July 4.-Owing to the con
stant broadening of Americans for
eign relations, congress may be asked
to appropriate money for the estab
lishment of a bureau, for an inter
national commission under the state
department, it was learned here.
American members of the new organ
ization, it was said, will be members
of the numerous commissions estab
lished by the German treaty.
In view of the big change which
will be caused by broadening of the
work which will come under this de
partment, Lansing believes an exten
sion or reorganization of the depart
ment is necessary. He also favors
the establishment of a bureau,
through which work of the various
commissions can be handled. It is
qilEaa wayrn p aIuIvni a.
EX-KAISER
WILL BE
TRIED
Announcement Is Complete
Surprise to Peace Dele
gates. Lloyd George May
Be Playing Politics.
(Special United Press Wire.)
London, July 4.-The former Ger
man kaiser will be charged with vio
lation of the neutrality of Belgium
and Luxemburg, it developed follow
ing Lloyd George's announcement
that the ex-kaiser would be brought
to trial. Five judges from the
United States, Great Britain, France,
Italy and Japan will try the case.
All the allies will join in a request
to Holland to deliver Wilhelm to the
allied committee, which will be
formed to frame the procedure of
the trial. There is no precedent by
which the trial can be conducted.
SURPIRISE TO DELEGATES.
(Special United Press Wire.) ,
Paris, July 4.-Lloyd George's an
nouncement that the former kaiser
would be brought to trial, was a com
plete surprise to the peace delegates
here, it has developed. A,'hough
Secretary Lansing is chairman of the
committee on responsibility of the
war, he had no knowledge of the
plans for Wilhelm's trial until he
read them in the newspapeis. It is
not known here whether Lloyd
George is playing politics or an
nouncing a serious decision of the
Big Four.
MIISSOURI RATIFIES AMENDMENT
(Special United Press Wire.)
Jefferson City, July 4.--Mi°"'url
has ratified the federal suffrage
amendment. The senate adop'-d tie
also planned to establish a bureau
for trade affairs.
The commission on responsibilities
for the war, it is learned, may reply
to the letter of former German Chan
cellor Bethmann-Hollweg, in which
he asked to assume the blame for
the war. The commissioners are now
considering his letter, with a view to
framing a reply.
WILL SEND DELEGATE.F
(Special to Bulletin.)
Livingston. July 4.-The federal
labor union lasT night named dele
gates to attend the One Dig Union
convention in Butte, July 6.
THE WEATHER.
Fair and cooler.
TO OUR SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES
On this, the one hundred and forty-third anniversary of the signing of that re
markable document, the Declaration of Independence, the Butte Daily Bulletin, on
behalf of the workingmen and working women of the state, from whose ranks the
overwhelming majority of your numbers sprang, extends to those of you who have
survived the world's most bloody conflict, a formal welcome home. To those of
you who lie in lonely graves in foreign soil, victims of the lust of nations, our deep
est grief is extended. On this occasion, too, we extend a formal welcome home to
those of our devoted women who served in foreign fields, and our deepest sympa
thies to the mothers and fathers of the boys and girls who made the supreme sac
rifice. THE BUTTE DAILY BULLETIN.
THAT ALL MAY KNOW
Declaration of Independence
When, in the course of human
events, it becomes necessary foy
one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume,
among the powers of the earth,
their safety and hlappiness. Pru
which the laws of nature and of
nature's God entitle them, a de
cent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self
evident-That all nien are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalien
able rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. That, to secure these
rights, governments are institutedi
among men, deriving their just
powers fromn the consent of the
governed; that, whenever any formn
of government becomes destruc
tive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute a new govern
maent, laying its foundation on
such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Prud
lence, indeed, will dictate, that
governments long established
should not be changed for light
and transient causes; and accord
ingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more diso.sed
to suffer while evils are suffer
able, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. But whean
at long train of abuses and usur
pations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design to rc
duce themn under absolute despot
isml, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such govern
meInt, and to provide new guards
for their futture security. Such has
been the patient sufferance of
these colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constraills
them to alter their former systems
of government. The history of the
present king of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and
suurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an ab
solute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submit
ted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to
laws most wholesome and neces
sary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors
to pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance, unless sus
pended in their operation till his
assent should be obtained; and
when so suspended, he has utter
ly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other
laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the
right of representation in the leg
islature-a right inestimable to
them, and formidable to tyrants
only.
He has called together legisla
tive bodies at places unusual, un
comfortable, and distant from the
depository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his
measure.
l-Ic has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing,
with manly firnioess, his invasions
on theI rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time
after such dissolutions, to cause
others to be elected, whereby the
legislative powers, incapable of an
nihilation, have returned to the
people at large for their exercise;
the state remaining, in the mean
tim, exposed to all the dangers of
invasions from without, and con
vulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent
the population of these states; for
that purpose obstructing the laws
for the naturalization of foreign
'ers; refusing to pass others to en
courage their migration hither,
and raising the conditions of new
appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the adminis
tration of justice, by refusing his
assent to laws for establishing ju
diciary powers.
, He has made judges dependent
on his will alone for the tenure of
their offices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of
new offices, and sent hither
swarms of officers to harass our
people and cat out of their sub
stance.
He has kept amlong Its in times
of peace, standing armlnies, without
the consent of olr legislatures.
He has affected to render the
military independent of, and su
perior to, civil power.
He has combined with others to
subject us to a jurisdiction foreign
to our constitulions, and unac
knowledged by our laws; giving
his assent to their acts of pretend
ed legislation:
For quartering large bodies of
armed troops anmong us;
For protecting them, by a mock
trial, from punishment for any
murders which they should com
mit on the inhabitants of these
states;
For cutting off our trade with
all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us with
out our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases
of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond
seas, to be tried for pretended of
fences;
For abolishing the free system
of English laws in a neighboring
province, establishing therein an
arbitrary government, and enlarg
ing its boundaries, so as to ren
der it at once an example and fit
instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these col
onies;
For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws.
and altering, fundamentally, the
forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legisla
tures, and declaring themselves
invested with power to legislate,
for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government
here, by declaring us out of his
protection, and waging war against
us.
He has plundered our seas, rav
aged our coasts, burned our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our peo
ple.
lie is at tIlls tiie rntnsjliorting
llarge armies of foreigln nercenu('rolu
ies to complete thie ivworks of death,
desolation and tyrayllll, all'eady
begun with cilClullnstances of cruel
ty and perfidy scarcely paralleled
in the nmost barbarous ages, and
totally unworthy the head of a
civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow
citizens, taken captive on the high
seas, to bear arms against their
country, to become the execution
ers of their friends and brethren,
,ir to fall themselves by their
hIands.
He has excited domestic insur
rection almong us, and has endea
vored to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers the merciless In
dian savages, whose known rule of
warfare is an indistinguished de
struction of all ages, sexes and
conditions.
In every stage of these oppres
sious we have petitioned for re
illress in the most humlleb te'rmlls;
our relelated petitions have leen
alnswelred only Iby repealted injiury.
A prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may
define a tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in
our attentions to our British
brethren. We have warned themi,
frol time to timle, of attempts by
their legislature to extend an un
warranted jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the
circuinstances of our enligration
and settlement here. We have ap
pealed to their native justice and
magnanility; and we have conl
jured theiii, by thile ties of our
common kindred, to disavow these
usurpations, which would inevi
tably corrupt ourl connections and
correspondence. They, too, have
been deaf to the voice of justice
and consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquiesce ill the neces
sity which denounces our separa
tion, and hold them, as we hold
the rest of mankind, enemies in
war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representa
tives of the United States of Amer
ica, in general congress assembled,
appealing to the Supremne Judge
of the world for the rectitude of
our intentions, do, in the name
and by the authority of the good
people of these colonies, solemnly
publish and declare, That these
united colonies are, and oIf right
oulgilht to be frlee and illndependlenl
states; thait tey are albsolved frolli
all illegillnc to tilhe Brlitish crown,
and that aill political collleclioll
between them and the state of
Great Britain is and ought to be,
totally dissolved; anld that as free
and indepllndent states, they have
full power to levy wal', conclude
mpeace, contract allianl'es, establish
cnelllrce, and do all other acts
and things which independent
states limay' of right do. And, for
the support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the pro
tection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor.
CROWDS SMALLER
THAN PREDICTED;
PICKPOCKETS BUSY
(Special United Press Wire.)
Toledo, July 4.-Dempsey won the heavyweight
championship of the world by knocking Jess Willard
out in the third round.
Toledo, July 4.-Age flung its challenge to youth in Toledo
and youth flung it back. Jess Willard, 38-year-old heavy
weight champion of the world, was scheduled to meet Jack
Dempsey, 24, in a scheduled 12-round bout for the pugilistic
titlp in the nratiit arenna ravr annatrIrntat fnr cmnh a nnntct.
MANY DOING BUSINESS
AT SAME DOD STAND
(Special 'United Pre'ss Wire.)
San Francisco, July 4.-All con
crete evidence of the manufacture
and sale of 2.75 per cent beer will be
referred to Attorney General Palmer
for advice, as to whether prosecu
tion shall follow, Annette Adams,
United States district attorney has
announced. The sale of 2.75 per
cent beer has bi!en resumed by a
large numbellbr of former saloons. All
conllcernls operatillg, however, are do
inig so at their own risk, as Ithe wet
federation has decided inot to sulp
port anlly of these cases until soiiie
specific ruling is mnade at Washing
ton, regarding light wines and beer.
BILL WILL REIUIRE
CAREFUL CONSIDERATION
(Special United Press Wire.)
Washington, July 4.--Aitorney
General PIalmIier's statemenllt regard
ing the dry enforcemIent law, )brought
fronl conlgressional leaders a predic
tion that unless unusual conditions
arise, prohibition enforcene nt legis
lation will not be passcd much
earlier than August 1. Republican
Leader Mondell stated that the dras
tic terms of the constitutional prohi
bition enforcement plan, which is
coupled with war-time enforcement
provisions in o-ne bill, will require
careful consideration.
ASSEMBLY WILL MEET
TO RATIFY TREATY
(Special United Press Wire.)
Paris, July :;.---A nole from the
German governmelnt stated the na
tional assembly expects to meet next
week to ratify the treaty. President
Ebert will enforce the treaty im
mediately, it was declared, hoping
thereby to bltain the lifting of the
blockade and a return of the Ger
1In·1 war·1 neIiUannO ru
What the Fishters Said
IBy JIi:S SWIILARlU).
My duty is plain today. i'm to
hit Jack Dempsey, stop him and keep
the heavyweight championship where
it belongs. I believe I can do that
thing. My condition is far better
than I ever thought it would be and
I believed even at the start I was
going to be in fine shape. I .mn all
ready for Mr. Dempsey and am set
to travel any kind of a journey he
outlines in the ring. I can't tell how
long the show will last. but 1 don't
think 1 will be there all day.
By JACKI DEMPSEY.
Right now I'm waiting for 3:30
for I have every confidence in the
world that this is the beginning of
the end of Jess Willard's champion
ship reign. Tonight I hope to be
champion and think I will be. I
Prealize I have no simple task defeat
The program was to start at 10
o'clock, the officials of the Toledo
Athletic club having returned to that
program following the earlier an
nouncement in whio.. two of the
original six preliminaries were called
off.
Crowds Smnller Than Expected.
It. was indicated early today that
the expected enormous crowd would
not reach the huge proportions that
had been so freely predieted. Evi
dence was seen in the hustle of ticket
speculators to get from under at the
smallest possible loss on admission
plasteboards in which they invested,
also in the failure of "flop houses"
to do the land office business they
expected.
('Clh pion Is Favorite.
Willard was a strong favorite in
the early bets. A delegation from
Kansas, the home of the champion,
announced they had $10,000 to lay
at odds of 10 to 8 on the champion.
This was quickly gobbled up. Odds
of five to four on Willard were free
ly quoted
Independence Day-fight day
dawned cloudless here. Heat ap
proximating 90 degrees was forecast
for the arena where Dempscy-Wil
lard battle for the championship.
The arena was flooded last night in
the hope of making it as cool as pos
sibhle.
Women Sleep in Park.
Of the thousands about Bayview
)park, with the first rays of the sun
only about 100 placed themselves to
lie in wait for the opening of seat
sale. Others squirmed about the
park looking at the arena or stand
ilg about in the sun. Many women
among those who declined to pay
the high prices for beds slept in the
park on benches or on tables built
for picnic parties. The police acted
as alarm clocks, applying the shak
ing hand at sunrise,
D)empsey Used to Heat.
The heat was terrific. The news
paper'mel and telegraphers were the
first unfortunates on the pmound,
wrapped handkerchiefs about their
heads and picked the coolest spots
on the frying board seats. They
paid outrageous prices for cushions
and went philosophically to work.
Jimn Deforrest, Dempsey's trainer,
said Dempsey is used to the heat and
will be stronger. Willard trained
in the shade, he said, and that will
give Dempsey a better chance.
The first man who bought a seat
(Continued on Page Six.)
ing my huge opponent, but you know,
they say the bigger they are the
harder they fall. And I think Mr.
Jess is going to give the floor a solid
thump. I'm ready to start early and
keel) hot-footing it to the finish.
By RIEFEREE OLLIE RECORD.
My work in the title fight is plain.
The rules of the Toledo boxing com
mission are not complicated and are
thoroughly understood by both Wil
lard and Dempsey. Each man only
wants fair treatment, and wanting
it, must get it. There should not
be the slightest question of honest
boxing. Willard and Dempsey are in
the front rank of the heavyweight
division and to hold their profession
the championship contest must be on
a high level and they must be gentlei